Can't Smile Without You (Alternate First Take) - Barry Manilow

You know I can't smile without you I can't smile without you I can't laugh and I can't walk I'm finding it hard even to talk And I feel sad when you're sad I feel glad when you're glad And you must know what I'm going through I just can't smile without you You came along just like a song You brightened my day Who'd believe you were part of a dream That only seemed light years away And you know I can't smile without you I can't smile without you And you must know what I'm going through I just can't smile without you Some people say the happiness way Is something that's hard to find Into the new, leaving the old behind me And I feel sad when you're sad I feel glad when you're glad And you must know what I'm going through I just can't smile without you Into the new, leaving the old behind me And I feel sad when you're sad I feel glad when you're glad And you must know what I'm going through I just can't smile without you And you must know what I'm going through

The guilty undertaker sighs The lonesome organ grinder cries The silver saxophones say I should refuse you The cracked bells and washed-out horns Blow in my face with scorn But it's not that easy I wasn't born to lose you I want you, I want you I want you so bad Honey, I want you The drunken politician leaps Upon the street where mothers weep And the saviors who are fast asleep, they wait for you And I wait for them to interrupt Me drinkin' from my broken cup And ask me if I would Open up the gate for you I want you, I want you I want you so bad Honey, I want you Well all my fathers, they've gone down True love they've been without it But all their daughters put me down 'Cause I don't think about it Well, as I return to the Queen of Spades And talk with my chambermaid She knows I'm not afraid to look at her And oh she is good to me And there's nothing that she doesn't see She knows where I'd like to be But it doesn't matter I want you, I want you Yes, I want you so bad Honey, I want you Your dancing child with his Chinese suit He spoke to me, I took his flute No, I wasn't very cute to him, was I? But I did it to him because he lied Because he took you for a ride Because time was on his side And because I... I want you, I want you I want you so bad Honey, I want you

She's a great little housewife Though sometimes she talks like a fool But she helps at the store in the holiday rush And she picks up the kids after school And she puts down the phone when her husband comes home And she changes from mother to wife 'Til she feels the words hanging between them And she hangs by her words to her life She says I swear I love my husband, I love my kids I wanted to be like my mother But if I hadn't done it as soon as I did Oh there might have been time to be me For myself, for myself There's so many things that she wishes She don't even know what she's missin' And that's how she knows that she missed She's a sweetheart, except when she's moody It's hard to get through to her then Depressed for a while when the youngest was born Oh but that happens now and again She might take a drink with the housework Or when Michael's kept late at the shop A Martini or two before dinner But she always knows when to stop She says I swear I love my husband and I love my kids You know I wanted to be like my mother But if I hadn't done it as soon as I did Oh there might have been time to be me For myself, for myself There's so many things that she wishes She don't even know what she's missin' And that's how she knows that she missed Oh they used to hold hands at the movies Now it's seldom if ever they go Once you've paid for the sitter and parkin' the car There's no money left for the show She was doing the dishes When a glass fell and broke on the tile And she cut her wrist (quite by mistake) It was real touch and go for a while She says Oh God I love my husband and I love my kids You know I wanted to be like my, my mother But if I hadn't done it as soon as I did Oh there might have been time to be me For myself, for myself There's so many things that she wishes She don't even know what she's missin' And that's how she knows that she missed

We walked to the sea Just my father and me And the dogs played around on the sand Winter cold cut the air Hangin' still everywhere Dressed in gray, did he say hold my hand I said, love's easier when it's far away We sat and watched a distant light We're two ships that pass in the night We both smile and we say it's alright We're still here, it's just that we're out of sight Like those ships that pass in the night There's a boat on the line Where the sea meets the sky There's another that rides far behind And it seems you and I Are like strangers, a wide ways apart As we drift on through time He said, it's harder now, we're far away We only read you when you write We're two ships that pass in the night And we smile when we say it's alright We're still here, it's just that we're out of sight Like those ships that pass in the night We're just ships that pass in the night And we smile when we say it's alright We're still here, it's just that we're out of sight Like those ships that pass in the night